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Beginning in 1850, the United States census listed the name, age, and birth
place of all members of every household, and stated the profession, occupation,
or trade of each male person over 15 years of age. The 1850 census for Seneca
County, Ohio, lists John and Salome as “John Heter” (age 60, a mistake) and
“Sarah Heter” (age 56), living in Thompson Township, with four children still
living with them: Levi (age 21), Eli (age 18), Adam (age 15), and Eliza (age
13). John is listed as a farmer, the boys as laborers. There are four other
heads of households named Heater or Heter listed in Seneca County: John, age
40, and Jacob, age 29 (sons of Adam Heater and Catharine Fries; George, age 35,
William, age 33, (the oldest sons of John Heater and Salome Fries). All were
farmers or laborers; all were married with children; all were born in
Pennsylvania. George and William lived in Thompson Township; John and Jacob
lived in Scipio Township. Also living in Thompson Township was Catharine
Heater, 58 years old, born in Pennsylvania, wife of Adam, probably widowed.
1850 UNITED STATES CENSUS, SENECA COUNTY, OHIO
John Heter (60) and Sarah [Salome, ed.] Heter (56). Children: Levi (21),
Eli (18), Adam (15), Eliza (13).
John Heater (40) and Elizabeth Heater (36). Children: Isaac (17),
Sarah (15), John (13), David (11), Jacob (9), William (8), Perry (5),
Lavina (3), Elizabeth (2 months).
George Heater (35) and Hannah Heater (34). Children: Mary A. (13),
Eliza A. (10), Hannah (7), Phiany (Vianna) (4).
William Heater (33) and Elizabeth Heater (38). Children: Mary A. (11),
Emanuel (8), William (6), John (4), Daniel (2).
Jacob Heater (29) and Susan (26). Children: Catharine (5), Edson (4),
Elizabeth (1).
In the 1860 census, John Heater and Salome Fries are again listed as “John
Heter” and “Sarah Heter,” now 66 and 65, living in Bellevue Township, Huron
County, Ohio. They are buried at Saint Paul’s Reformed Church Cemetery in
Bellevue, Sandusky County, Ohio (see above). Bellevue is located on the county
line between Sandusky and Huron counties, one mile north of Seneca County.
John Heater survived his wife by 16 years. He appears in the 1880 census, at
86 years of age, living in York, Sandusky, Ohio, as a boarder in the household
of Philip Cupp, his son-in-law, and Eliza Cupp, his youngest daughter.
It was Jacob Heater (born 4 March 1820), third son of John Heater and Salome
Fries, who migrated to Sterling, Rice, Kansas (then called Peace, Kansas), with
his wife Lucetta, three of their children, and one nephew. Jacob and
“Lusetta” Heater (age 60 and 58) appear on the 1880 census rolls for Sterling,
Rice, Kansas, with their sons Franklin Heater (age 26) and Thomas J. Heater
(age 23); their daughter Levina Cleghorn (age 34), wife of De Forest W.
Cleghorn; and a nephew Perry (age 24), of uncertain relation.
Lucetta Gambee, wife of Jacob Heter, was born 4 October 1821 in Chapman
Township, Union County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of George Gamby and
Susan Shaffer. The Gambee ancestry can be traced back to Germany – to Baden,
or Palatine. HERE
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